Michael Slowe
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Couldn’t agree more concerning the Vortex settings as explained by Doug Jensen in their wonderful double DVD EX workshop. This I honestly believe should be essential viewing for anyone new to these cameras, it saves weeks of experiment and trawling menus etc. He’s a real pro and his chapters on dealing with the media are good too.
Michael Slowe
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Although I haven’t had your problem with importing I do have a ‘crashing’ problem when I try to re link (sync) an audio clip with video when the audio has been dropped down to a lower track. Never had this before I went to version 13 PPC (HDx Board).
Michael Slowe
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That’s fantastic news Floh. I hope to shoot 1080 25P with the EX 1 but find it won’t play out, your news will change that.
Michael Slowe
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Could the media you are tying to ingest be with embedded audio? I don’t think all versions of Media 100 can take this. I had this problem when I tried to take in video direct from the EX camera through the SDI out port where the audio is embedded.
Michael Slowe
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I really am puzzled by the constant worries people are having after using non Sony S x S cards in the EX cameras. Surely, if you’re spending thousands on these great cameras and presumably shooting important and valuable material it makes sense to at least make absolutely sure (even then with some doubts!) that you can access the media. That means using the cards that Sony developed for the camera. OK they’re more expensive, so?
Michael Slowe
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I hope you realise that recording to a ‘set top’ DVD recorder might well mean your DVD will not always play on other players. The only way to be certain you will never have problems is to properly encode to MPEG 2 with a high quality encoder such as BitVice and use Studio Pro to format. This way you can also choose bit rates to ensure the best quality depending on length of programme. Your aspect ratio issues will then be taken care of as well. When mastering (firewire) to DVCAM tape I find that a 16:9 timeline goes perfectly well from Media 100 without having to set anything.
Michael Slowe
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It all depends on what has been done to the files. In order for a given editing software to edit (or view) them they have to be unwrapped from their original MPEG4 ‘wrapper’. Different edit systems then want them in different codecs. Most (I believe) want QT.Mov files but I’m not sure about Premiere. I am also pretty sure you need the Sony Transfer application to do all this for you.
Michael Slowe
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I don’t even have a master BPAV folder. I open a folder for each card and provided that my label starts BPAV I can put whatever I want after that for identification purposes. What must happen is that you take the complete BPAV folder from the card and there can be nothing written before ‘BPAV’.
Michael Slowe
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Michael, you didn’t quite answer the question although what you sent was very interesting. I presume you are saying these devices do the job without a laptop but need power from somewhere?
Michael Slowe
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I put my files on to a 320Gb USB powered drive rather than on to the Macbook drive, but go through the Macbook to do it. Is that what you intend to do? Back at base I then make sure by transferring to yet another drive before ingesting for editing. You will also need the Sony Transfer software and most will say also Clip Browser but I do OK without it.
It takes me about 15 minutes to transfer a full 16 GB card but that is 1080i, maybe different with progressive? I believe Clip Browser reduces this time. The price of the 32 Gb cards have come down but your requirements depend on how much you’re shooting. I get about 1 hour (at best quality) per 16Gb’s and only have 2 X 8 cards in addition, seems plenty, particularly if you’re transferring on location.
Michael Slowe